Operating Systems for Research

Operating Systems for Research

Some weeks ago, a PhD student asked me what operating system was the best for doing his thesis. My response was that any operating system was good as we could find the required software to develop his doctoral thesis in MS Windows, MacOSX, ChromeOS, and Linux. After that, I decided to create several posts with a list of all the software that a PhD student needs to develop his/her research depending on the operating system. Today we’re starting with Linux.

Editors & Managers

Office Suite: LibreOffice and Calligra

Professional Text Editor: Abiword

Plain Text Editor: gedit and kate

Latex editor: Tex Live and Texmaker or TexStudio

Code Editor: Sublime

PDF Editor: Foxit Reader and Evince or Okular

Reference Manager: Mendeley

Editors of Images, sound and video

Image Editor: Gimp

Vectorial Images Editor: Inkscape and Skencil

Diagram Editor: DIA

Music Manager: Banshee (full) and Audacious (plain)

Video Player: VLC player

Music and Video Editor: Audicity and Avidemux & Dvd::rip and Openshot

Notes

Notebook: Everpad (Evernote)

Project Manager: Planner

Task Manager: Wunderlist

Internet and communication

Web Browser: Chrome

Email Manager: Thunderbird (with google extensions)

News Manager: Liferea and Akregator

FTP Manager: Filezilla

Downloads Manager: Transmission and Jdownloader

Communication: Skype (video), Pidgin (google talk), Hotot (Twitter)

Analysis

Data Analysis: R and RStudio

Files Manager

Storing Files in the Cloud: Dropbox and GoogleDrive

Password Manager: Revelation and KeePassX

Backups: Back in time

With all this, you will have no problem to make your doctoral thesis. In following posts, we will discuss in more detail some of them.

By vicenc|2015-04-07T17:39:01+00:00Tuesday, April 7 2015|Research, Software|Comments Off on Operating Systems for Research